IcarusCar, 2008

IcarusCar is a screen-based sculptural installation involving the myth of a flying car. Inspired by the real history of Molt Taylor’s 1949 Aerocar One and the folly of Icarus, an abstract narrative is created with four channels of video and sculptural artifacts from the film. Using a full-sized 1969 MGB GT and a scale model of the same, the media is set in the rural southern Alberta winter landscape, where an old crumbling barn and long desolate roads provide the place for subject and setting. Nostalgia for another time in history, the relationship between the automobile, the Canadian prairie landscape, and the inventor or artist are all part of the dream to push beyond gravity and use human ingenuity to create something new, to fly.

Co-creator: Keith H Doyle

Performed by: Keith H Doyle, Evann Siebens & Clarice Evans

Produced in co-production with The Banff New Media Institute, The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada

EXHIBITIONS + SCREENINGS

GALLERY 295
Solo Exhibition
Vancouver, Canada
February 2014

HARCOURT HOUSE ARTIST RUN CENTRE
Solo Exhibition
Edmonton, Canada
October 2012
Canadian Art Article by Bryne McLaughlin, November 2012

HOTSHOE GALLERY
Solo Exhibition
London, England
April 2011

VIVARIUM GALLERY
Solo Exhibition
Vancouver, Canada
April 2009

THE NEW GALLERY
Solo Exhibition
Calgary, Canada
January 2009

THE POINT GALLERY
Solo Exhibition
Salt Spring Island, Canada
July 2008